For a while there, we thought we wouldn’t be saying this, but: the 2011-2012 NBA season is ready to tip off. The 149-day lockout is all but forgotten, and the NBA returns with a five-game Christmas feast, starting with the New …

Here’s your goal: Winnow the entire NBA schedule down from 82 games for each team into a 66-game season that starts on Dec. 25. And don’t forget about the individual schedules of 30 teams spread across four time zones — and …

The first thing you must know about Mikhail Prokhorov? As a Russian energy billionaire, he has a bit of cash on hand. Prokhorov initially entered the world stage in 2010 by becoming the first foreign owner of an NBA franchise …

NBA fans will receive quite a gift this Christmas: a season. At around 3:30 AM Saturday morning, the NBA’s owners and players announced that they have reached a handshake agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement, after …

While scuttling the NBA owners’ offer that came with a hefty ultimatum, the NBA Players Association showed it feels talks have completely disintegrated and will take their issues with owners to a courtroom.

After a seven-hour meeting on Monday, the NBA and its players union could not agree to a labor deal, forcing commissioner David Stern to cancel the first two weeks of the regular season, which was scheduled to tip off on November 1.